Originally Posted By: Smalma
Pretty much SOP wtih landings measured in 10,000s . However what is really shocking is that in spite of the heavy netting escapements are met.

The wild coho in the basin are listed as healthy (the beauty of composite/integrated stock managment???).

The hatchery escapements are consistently well above brood stock needs. As I recall they need roughly 2,00 to 2,500 adults at the hatcheyr to meet egg take needs and over the last 9 years the hatchery has gotten 3 to 20 times that number. Duirng that period the hatchery escapement has exceeded 30,000 fish for 6 years, with the "high water" mark being in 2004 when 50,000 fish made it back to the hatchery (source WDFW hatchery escapement reports).

Assurely the Tribal fishery harvest more than 50% of the harvestable numbers. However given how poorly those fish bite on inside waters the only way I can see that the non-treaty fishery would reach 50% would be for non-treaty commerical fishery in the same areas. Does that really make any difference to the recreational fisheries?

Tight lines
Curt


It would be interesting to see if over the years the average size of the escapemnet fish shrunk. What I mean is if due to mesh size a genitically smaller fish was returning.
JY
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